Purgatory

Daniel is a Marxist and does odd jobs out of conviction. Under questioning by a public prosecutor about a homicide, he is initially reluctant to provide information. After witnessing a kidnapping, he went to the police. When they did not seem interested in following up, he made contact with people in the milieu of the victim, an opposition politician from the Middle East. But the question is, how altruistic and empathetic really is Daniel’s increasing militant involvement in freeing the victim, given that he has begun an affair with the man’s girlfriend. (Berlinale)